Perhaps realizing that he was depressing sales of his AutoTuned iPhone app by releasing a digital-manipulation-free single over the weekend, T-Pain has released the real first single from his forthcoming album Revolver; it is a track that is all about the tweaking called “Take Your Shirt Off,” which features his voice making altered “ticka ticka” sounds that I’m pretty sure are supposed to stand in for one of the seven dirties. It even goes so far as to take Jay-Z to task and ask the still-burning question “Is AutoTune really dead?”—only he answers that query with “Take your shirt off,” which I guess is a non-non sequitur in the eyes of Teddy Pinned-Her-Ass. Sigh. [Nappy Boy Online / Earlier] MORE »
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T-Pain Celebrates His Re-Embrace Of AutoTune With Sound Effects, Demands For Mass Toplessness
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Wavves Meltdown Results In Mass Outbreak Of Twittenfreude
The Pitchfork-beloved lower-than-lo-fi outfit Wavves has certainly caused certain corners of the Internet to get their danders up, thanks to the influential review site’s unabashed enthusiasm for the band so early in its career rubbing up against its ramshackle sonic aesthetics and bordering-on-unbearable live show. Those live woes continued yesterday at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound Festival, where they basically staged a melt down while playing the fest’s Pitchfork-sponsored stage. What started with a bad soundcheck grew into bottles being thrown at the crowd, Wavves main man Nathan Williams mocking the crowd’s choice of recreational pharmaceuticals, petulance toward the sound guy, and the drummer finally pouring a big cup of beer over Williams’ head. Naturally, this news of an overhyped band being sort of crappy led to no shortage of responses on the microblogging service Twitter, which, in times like these, serves as the Internet’s perhaps-too-rapid-response unit. A sampling of reactions from people who felt the urge to issue 140-character statements on what this means for Wavves, music, and the world after the jump! MORE »
